Tukulti-Ninurta I 18

Obverse
11

mGIŠ.tukul-ti-dnin-urta MAN KIŠ

(1) Tukultī-Ninurta (I), king of the world, strong king, king of Assyria, conqueror of the rebellious those who do not submit (to him and) who are hostile to the god Aššur defeater of all of the unsubmissive rebels (of) the lands of the Uqumanî and Papḫû, crusher of the land Katmuḫi (and) the army of the land Qutû difficult mountain (regions) disperser of the forces of the land Šubarû to (its) full extent, overwhelmer of all of the unsubmissive (of) the lands Alzi (and) Purulumzi, the legitimate ruler who marches about in the four quarters (of the world) with the support of the god Aššur and the great gods and has neither successful opponent nor rival, capturer of enemy districts above and below, strong king, capable in battle, the one who took over the rule of all of the Naʾiri lands and made forty (of its) kings their commanders bow down at his feet, (the one who) added the lands Azalzi and Šepardî to his territory; son of Shalmaneser (I) king of Assyria; (and) son of Adad-nārārī (I), (who was) also king of Assyria.

22

MAN dan-nu MAN KUR d-šur

33

ka-ši-id mu-ul-tar-ḫi

44

la-a ma-gi-ri za-e-ru-ut d-šur

55

-ir KUR.ú-qu-ma-ni-i

66

ù pap-ḫi-i la-a ka-ni-ši

77

pu-ḫur tar-gi-gi

88

da-i- KUR.kat-mu-ḫi

99

um-ma-na-at KUR.qu-ti-i

1010

pu-šu-uq ḫur-šá-ni

1111

mu-se-pi-iḫ el-le-et

1212

KUR.šu-ba-ri-i a-di pa-aṭ gim-ri

1313

sa-pi-in KUR.al-zi

1414

ù KUR.pu-ru-lum-zi si-ḫi-ir

1515

la-a kan-ši ru-ba-ú ki-nu

1616

šá i-na GIŠ.tukul-ti d-šur

1717

ù DINGIR.MEŠ GAL.MEŠ i-na kib-rat 4

1818

it-tal-la-ku-ma mu--eḫ-ḫa

1919

ù gab-a-ri-a la-a i-šu-ú

2020

ṣa-bi-it mi-iṣ-rat KÚR.MEŠ

2121

e-li- ù šap-li-

2222

LUGAL dan-nu le-ú MURUB₄

2323

šá kúl-la-at KUR.KUR na-i-ri

2424

i-pe-lu-ma 40-a LUGAL.MEŠ

2525

šá-pi-ri-šu-nu a-na GÌR.MEŠ-šu

2626

ú-šék-ni-šu KUR.a-za-al-zi

2727

ù KUR.še-pár-di-i a-na mi-ṣir KUR-šu

2828

-ku-nu A dsál-ma-nu-MAŠ MAN KUR d-šur

2929

A 10-ERIM.TÁḪ MAN KUR d-šur-ma u₄-ma É d30

(29b) At that time, (as for) the ancient temple of the gods Sîn and Šamaš, which the kings who came before me had previously built, that temple had become dilapidated and I cleared away its dilapidated section(s) (and) I reached its foundation pit. I completed (it) from its foundations to its crenellations. Moreover, I deposited my commemorative inscription (therein). I returned the commemorative inscriptions of former kings to their places.

3030

ù dšá-maš maḫ-ru-ú šá i-na pa-na

3131

LUGAL.MEŠ a-lik pa-ni-ia e-pu-šu É šu-ú

3232

e-na-aḫ-ma an-ḫu-su ú--ki-ir

3333

dan-na-su ak-šu-ud -tu -še-šu a-di

3434

gaba-dib-bi-šu ú-šak-lil ù na-re-ia

3535

-ku-un na-re-e šá LUGAL.MEŠ maḫ-ru-te

3636

a-na -ri-šu-nu ú-ter NUN EGIR

(36b) May a future ruler renovate its dilapidated section(s) (and) return my inscribed name to its place. The gods Sîn and Šamaš will (then) listen to his prayers.

3737

an-ḫu-su lu-di- MU šaṭ-ra

3838

ana -ri-šú lu-ter d30 ù dšá-maš

3939

ik-ri-be-šú i-še-em-mu-ú

4040

mu--kir₆ ši-iṭ-ri-ia

(40) (As for) the one who removes my inscription and my name, may the gods Sîn and Šamaš overthrow his kingship (and) make his name (and) his seed disappear from the land.

4141

ù šu--ia d30 ù dšá-maš

4242

LUGAL-su lis-ki-pu MU-šú NUMUN-šú

4343

i-na KUR lu-ḫal-li-qu

4444

ITI.al-la-na-tu li-mu mda-šur-EN-DINGIR.MEŠ

(44) Allānātu, eponymy of Aššur-bēl-ilāni.


Based on A. Kirk Grayson, Assyrian Rulers of the Third and Second Millennia BC (to 1115 BC) (RIMA 1), Toronto, 1987. Adapted by Jamie Novotny (2015-16) and lemmatized and updated by Nathan Morello (2016) for the Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), a corpus-building initiative funded by LMU Munich and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (through the establishment of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair for Ancient History of the Near and Middle East) and based at the Historisches Seminar - Abteilung Alte Geschichte of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/riao/Q005854/.